Relationship between energy expenditure and visceral fat accumulation in obese women submitted to adjustable silicone gastric banding (ASGB).

Abstract

(1) visceral fat accumulation was a significant predictor of RMR in the very obese woman; (2) visceral obese women lost more visceral fat than subcutaneous ones; (3) the reduction of the RMR observed during weight loss could partly be explained by a reduction of visceral fat mass.